Running for, with and sometimes away from my family

Parents

I’m a mess. My brain is like a bowl of spaghetti. A big jumbled tangle of thoughts and feelings all leading nowhere. I would love to separate them all out and straighten them one by one. Observe them and understand them. Then chose to keep or discard them. This is what I thought Mindfulness would … [Read more…]

I held my children close this morning. I kissed them and told them I love them. They wiped off my kisses, like they do, and told me their usual witterings about fidget spinner tricks and why it is ok to wear the same pair of socks, morning and night, for three days in a row. Today … [Read more…]

It’s day 5 of the summer holidays and it is HOT. Although I am grateful for warm weather, it beats rainy days and soft play hands down, it causes additional monkey stresses. Because they just can’t handle the heat. My house looked as though it was recently burgled Today the monkeys have played with play doh … [Read more…]

Parents, have you ever felt that by 9.00am it should already be bedtime? That so much has happened since you were pulled from your sleep that your body clock is way out of sync with the rest of the world? How much would you welcome a moments silence. Well this has been my day so … [Read more…]